Let's keep the info flowing, but one important point: doesn't that mean ASL is required? That's a medium problem, would require roughly 2 to 3 month of re-coding (best guess) features that are currently covered by GPL code, only.
Any thoughts? Rainer On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Rainer Gerhards <[email protected]>wrote: > Just a tiny note due to overload ;) > > > On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Radu Gheorghe > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'll leave it to Otis to give more details, because he's an Apache >> committer, but I believe there's a misunderstanding here. >> >> An Apache project can still be backed up by a commercial company. Lots of >> projects are, like Solr, Flume (another logging product!) and so on. The >> main advantage I see is that it's easier for the community to contribute >> and drive the project forward. It's a model that seems to work for >> open-source software, and lots of projects who got in there are doing very >> well - very active, growing, lots of people offering >> consulting&support&professional services, building more complex products >> on >> top of them, packaging them in various ways, etc >> >> I think this is an idea that would help drive more contributions and >> hopefully solve the 24 hours/day problem that keeps popping up lately, >> more >> and more as rsyslog gets more attention. To prove the "attention" theory, >> let's look at some trends for rsyslog and some other products that came up >> in discussions lately: >> >> http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=rsyslog%2C%20logstash%2C%20syslog-ng&cmpt=q >> >> And the mailing list traffic: >> http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.rsyslog >> >> Maybe going to Apache would be a crazy idea in the sense that it requires >> following that procedure. And people already have too little time. Maybe a >> less crazy idea is just to put it on GitHub or somewhere similar where it >> would be easy to just send pull requests. > > > Well... done so 6 month ago ;) This is the initial blog post with some > progress: > > http://blog.gerhards.net/2013/05/moving-to-github.html > > Was announced at several places. Overall feedback is "not bad, but no real > difference". > > Rainer > > >> This will not only make code >> patches easier, but I'm thinking at documentation, tests, issues, all in >> one place. >> >> Not only contributions would be easier, but it would make things would be >> more visible. Your github profile counts for many as some sort of CV. The >> more&better you contribute, the more awesome you are (think job >> opportunities and such). For the project, it would make it easier to see >> how it evolves: contributions, issues, wiki - again, all in one place. >> That >> is familiar to many. >> >> Apache takes this idea to a higher level, as far as I understand, so crazy >> could be crazy-good. *Could be* - I don't know, really, I'm lacking >> knowledge about how Adiscon and Apache works, although I have some idea >> about both. Otis, maybe you can say some more about the advantages (and >> disadvantages)? >> >> And I'm obviously curious about what the Adiscon guys have to say about >> this. >> >> Best regards, >> Radu >> >> 2013/12/11 Boylan, James <[email protected]> >> >> > I agree with David. As a business who developsand supports a product, I >> > can't see any reason for Adiscon to do so unless they decide to no >> longer >> > support and develop the software. >> > >> > -- James >> > -- Sent from my mobile -- >> > >> > ----- Reply message ----- >> > From: "David Lang" <[email protected]> >> > To: "rsyslog-users" <[email protected]> >> > Subject: [rsyslog] Rsyslog => Apache? >> > Date: Wed, Dec 11, 2013 3:09 PM >> > >> > not being an adiscon person, my first question is why they would want >> to do >> > that? >> > >> > David Lang >> > >> > On Wed, 11 Dec 2013, Otis Gospodnetic wrote: >> > >> > > Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 16:05:11 -0500 >> > > From: Otis Gospodnetic <[email protected]> >> > > Reply-To: rsyslog-users <[email protected]> >> > > To: rsyslog-users <[email protected]> >> > > Subject: [rsyslog] Rsyslog => Apache? >> > > >> > > Hi, >> > > >> > > Maybe this is a completely crazy question, but has Adiscon ever >> > considered >> > > moving Rsyslog to Apache? >> > > >> > > Thanks, >> > > Otis >> > > -- >> > > Performance Monitoring * Log Analytics * Search Analytics >> > > Solr & Elasticsearch Support * http://sematext.com/ >> > > _______________________________________________ >> > > rsyslog mailing list >> > > http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog >> > > http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ >> > > What's up with rsyslog? 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